πagarwalmath · 5th grade · Common Core MP.1
🚀 Challenge puzzles
Make sense of problems and keep at them (puzzles that need thinking, not a known method)
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1What digit goes in the box? ☐9 × 9 = 171
Answer: ______________
2What digit goes in the box? 3☐ × 2 = 78
Answer: ______________
3One 🍓 weighs the same as 3 🍌. The scale balances. How much does one 🍌 weigh?
Answer: ______________
4Maya spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $5 on a snack. Now there is $12 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
5What digit goes in the box? ☐3 × 5 = 365
Answer: ______________
6What digit goes in the box? ☐1 × 8 = 248
Answer: ______________
7Nora spent half of the money in a piggy bank on a book, then $5 on a snack. Now there is $9 left. How much was in the piggy bank at first?
Answer: ______________ dollars
8What digit goes in the box? ☐9 × 8 = 472
Answer: ______________
9What digit goes in the box? 9☐ × 9 = 864
Answer: ______________
10What digit goes in the box? ☐6 × 7 = 462
Answer: ______________
11One 🍐 weighs the same as 2 🍌. The scale balances. How much does one 🍐 weigh?
Answer: ______________
12What digit goes in the box? ☐5 × 4 = 60
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 1
- 2. 9
- 3. 8
- 4. 34 dollars
- 5. 7
- 6. 3
- 7. 28 dollars
- 8. 5
- 9. 6
- 10. 6
- 11. 14
- 12. 1
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